To the rest of the VC World, Silicon Valley sits as citadel in the land of innovation. Europe and the UK, the continental contenders, knock at its gates. In the UK, funds, deals and investments of every kind are taking place, bolstering the new role of the Venture market on the global stage.

Many fear the creation of monopolies and oligopolies as the cable sector consolidates, but the deal-making frenzy may actually benefit consumers, similar to a frenzy of M&A activity in the wireless sector between 2012 and 2014. read »

Judging by the official unemployment rate, the American economy is getting rapidly back on track. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in February 2015, meaning about 8.7 million people were officially unemployed. That rate has fallen dramatically from 10 percent immediately following the financial crisis and is now nearly on par with read »

With bold tax policies we could avoid “taxing” poor and middle-income individuals by cutting off vital programs, and we could shift the burden of two decades of unfunded wars and other reckless decisions from future generations to those who have benefited the most from our choices. read »

By now, your site should be optimized for mobile access. If it isn’t, you’ve got about 3 weeks left, as of the time of this writing.

Mobile user experience has been evolving over the course of the past decade, with a greater percentage of online searches being performed on mobile devices every year. Addressing this trend, Google has made read »

Pittsburgh-based social entrepreneur Liana Maneese started working to give young people a voice when she was just a teen herself. With two high school friends, she started RedTape Design, a digital media branding firm that aimed to publicize good causes and hip hop music by hosting intergenerational parties read »

Sprinklr announced today its latest round of funding and the introduction of Experience Cloud™. An additional investment round of $46 million brings its total venture funding to $123.5 million. Sprinklr now has a valuation of over $1 billion. The company also launched Experience Cloud™, an integrated technology that read »

The European venture capitalist has one play in his/her playbook: to find the best European tech entrepreneur from Helsinki to Madrid, and to sell his/her business to a US technology platform company. Twenty-five of these buy up most of the European venture backed startups.

We’ve all seen the charts and had the dispiriting conversations with our financial advisor. For most of us, there is a seven-figure gap between what we need for retirement and what we’ve saved. This isn’t an information problem. We have no shortage of retirement calculators, research studies, and financial read »

There is no doubt the “daily fantasy sports” marketplace is booming in America, with companies as varied as Comcast, MGT Capital and even the National Basketball Association becoming investors. Yet, one of the longstanding challenges for the “daily fantasy sports” industry has been the perception of legal risk — a perception read »

Sometimes, I think I’ve seen it all when it comes to presumptuous job ads, but I stumbled across one the other day that proved otherwise. The ad in question requested that candidates “please take the Myers-Briggs test and attach a screenshot of your results.” That the position was with a startup will come as little surprise to those of you read »

When technology industry veterans hear the word “millennials,” it’s usually in the context of millennials being new to the workforce and needing to adapt to corporate culture. But this influential generation of consumers is growing up. Most millennials are no longer teenagers or new graduates anymore. In fact, the oldest millennials are now read »

Susan was pursuing a huge deal for her company. This was the kind of deal that had the potential to double their business overnight. When the customer started applying pricing pressure, Susan responded in a confrontational way. As the two started arguing, Susan knew the deal was lost. After all, this was not the right way to start a business read »